Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

nJoy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by DavidBrown

I have no clue how to add this. Vbulletin is vastly inferior to phpbb. Everything on phpbb could be done with the click of a mouse or through tech support, not ridiculous downloads with coding that I don't even understand nor know how to use.

If anybody can help me I would appreciate it. I'm extremely frustrated right now because I spend hours on the phone every day with VB over things that could be accomplished in seconds on phpbb.

Totally stumped as I have no clue what you are having a problem with. Read the Readme and let me know if there is a problem (but try to be specific please)

Originally Posted by Kanustep

Today this error appear to me:

PHP Code:

Warning: include([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74 


Is there any suggestion that could fix this? This only appear each time people try to post on "redirection window", without need to include AME on the post.

The findonly.php file (in the above folder) is either missing or (more likely) the permissions have recently been changed on it. You can rebuild the cache files by toggling off and on the cache setting in AME

Originally Posted by Itchy Nips

I'm testing out this mod and most vids are working fine *kudos to you!*

this (random) video that I pulled from metacafe is not working though. Any reason why?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-HJr...tadium_speech/

Really not sure, best to post it in the therad where you got that definition from (assume its DJ's), then it can be looked into a bit better and keep this thread focused on the core project

Originally Posted by Daky

My members are already `crying` because of this,... i just switched from GB (where this was working) - Hopefully this will be implemented in next release, and hopefully it will be soon

Its actually a 'feature' of AME. In other words, I spent time coding a solution to prevent ugly quoting of videos. Like I said, Ill see if I can write in an option for it, but first time its been asked for

[hippyTRIBE]

Hello,

I was really happy to have such a mod in my forum untill i installed vB blog today. Ever since, I have been getting an error like this:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=1 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, August 23rd 2009 @ 09:16:39 AM
Error Date : Sunday, August 23rd 2009 @ 09:16:39 AM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxx.com/forum/blog...teblog&blogid=
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/forum/blog...php?do=newblog
IP Address : 219.64.128.82
Username : administrator
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.30

(i dont want to disclose my real site name so i edited it into xxxxxxx.com)

but the blog is posted anyway in the forum. Any idea, what could be the problem??


This was when i tried to embed a youtube link. So i tried to post a simple blog without any attachment, it still throws up an error like this:


Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, August 23rd 2009 @ 03:38:13 PM
Error Date : Sunday, August 23rd 2009 @ 03:38:13 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxx.com/forum/blog_po...teblog&blogid=
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/forum/blog_post.php?do=newblog
IP Address : 219.64.131.145
Username : administrator
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.30


I'd appreciate if you could help me fix this. Thanks a lot !
plz note that the blog is posted anyway but leads to an error page. I have to go back to blog forum to check whether it's posted or not (this will confuse my users)

[The Geek]

Check the AME tools (in the admincp). There is an option to add the ame flag to the blog system if you install it AFTER ame.

[The Geek]

On a side note, the next version allows you to override size settings per definition and includes a test bed to test, troubleshoot and develop definitions. I will most likely wait until vb4.0 before releasing though.

[hippyTRIBE]

Thanks a lot GEEK ..

Surprised to know you have anticipated future problems and keeps everything ready. Great work.

I just came to know, i have only 2 definitions. May be i should go out and dig more.

+1 thanks

[Drago13]

Originally Posted by jmillsss

Installed - awesome mod!

Is it possible to get rid of the blue bar above the video?

I am having the oposite problem.. After upgrading all i get is the bar.. you have to click on the bar , and it takes you to the site to watch the vid.. It was working fine before the up grade..
here is an example.... http://www.hodclan.com/showthread.php?t=2843

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Drago13

I am having the oposite problem.. After upgrading all i get is the bar.. you have to click on the bar , and it takes you to the site to watch the vid.. It was working fine before the up grade..
here is an example.... http://www.hodclan.com/showthread.php?t=2843

You don't allow guests to view your forum.

[Drago13]

sorry about that... should be able too now.. here is a youtube example..

http://www.hodclan.com/showthread.php?t=1048

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Drago13

sorry about that... should be able too now.. here is a youtube example..

http://www.hodclan.com/showthread.php?t=1048

Still blocked for me.

[Drago13]

darn... not sure why.. let me look at it .. sorry....